by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Translation by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Child of delight
Language: English after the English
Child of delight What brings you here Beneath these sullen skies? I saw and pitied mournful boy And I swore if need were To share your sadness And give to you my sunny joy Heavy and dark the night is closing Heavy and dark may its biding be Better for all from grief reposing And better for all who watch like me Guardian angel you lack no longer Evil fortune you need not fear Fate is strong, but love is stronger And more unsleeping then angel care
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Note: in the Fisk work, the first stanza is sung by Heathcliff and the rest by CatherineText Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Terry Fisk , "Child of delight" [voice, piano], from Wuthering Heights, no. 10 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk
This text was added to the website: 2004-03-22
Line count: 15
Word count: 87